Entering higher education requires students to adapt to new forms of “understanding, knowing, organizing, and interpreting information.” As part of Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach, Lea and Street have proven in their writing that academic research in student writing has fallen into three main categories which affect the grading process of students. The “study skills” approach states that all writing is a set of skills that can be transferred to any writing context. These skills are necessary in the writing process, and is taught to everyone from a young age. “Study skills” focuses on fixing the “problems” with the students ' ' writing and learning. However, in recent years, this approach has been frowned upon for being “cruel and insensitive” (Lea and Street), which has led to the redesigning of the “study skills” involved and expected in writing, leading to “academic
Entering higher education requires students to adapt to new forms of “understanding, knowing, organizing, and interpreting information.” As part of Student Writing in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Approach, Lea and Street have proven in their writing that academic research in student writing has fallen into three main categories which affect the grading process of students. The “study skills” approach states that all writing is a set of skills that can be transferred to any writing context. These skills are necessary in the writing process, and is taught to everyone from a young age. “Study skills” focuses on fixing the “problems” with the students ' ' writing and learning. However, in recent years, this approach has been frowned upon for being “cruel and insensitive” (Lea and Street), which has led to the redesigning of the “study skills” involved and expected in writing, leading to “academic